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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this will be inflammatory -- but the core/essential purpose of schools is the academic part.  So, keep PE b/c everybody needs a break and they do learn about health.... but get rid of sports teams.  Those are just not part of the core mission... sorry.

If I have to choose between counselors and a football team, I'm choosing counselors who might keep my kid from being bullied or might help someone with anorexia or abuse.

Then I'd reduce the number of instructional assistants -- I was shocked to look on my kids' elementary school website and see about 25 instructional assistants listed.  That seems like a whole lot.  Maybe we still need a lot of them for the special needs, but if they are not being used for special needs or kindergarten, I think they probably have to go.

Band/strings -- I'd hate to see it go, and I could argue that it is an academic pursuit b/c you can get a degree in music/fine arts.  But, it could become a fee-based program.

I'm willing to pay more taxes for all of the above and to avoid any other cuts.  [/quote]

Counselers don't do anything , in fact they sit around waiting in their offices most of the day. Everyone can now afford their own mental health counseling , no need to have that at school.

Sports and extra activities should be self pay to weed out the ones who are serious.

Many of the mental health and development issues should be self pay.

The school needs to prioritize teaching and the classroom. If they eliminated evening else or made it self pay there would be less administrators and executives needed to manage these superfluous activities.[/quote]

You should at least keep counselors at title one schools, most students there don't have rich parents who can pay for mental health services. And children living in poverty at more at risk for having lots of additonal stressors. [/quote]

So the affluent areas have to pay MORE into the system and get even LESS.  Fairfax County become just like the State.  If you want to continue down the class warfare, make the Title I school even MORE expensive and cut all services to the affluent schools.  I don't think that will work in this environment.  The activist parents are not in the Title I schools.

The vast majority of parents in affluent areas want good services for ALL children.  They do not mind if their taxes subsidize the less affluent schools as long as the services are there for their children also.  But if you tell them their taxes have to pay for "extra" services in the less affluent areas and THEY have to pay out of pocket for them at their child's school- then that would be perceived (correctly) as unfair.  Just look at the current frustration with the super large class sizes in the affluent areas when the less affluent class sizes are smaller based on official formula.  The school board and BOS need to keep this in mind if they do not want outright revolt.

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